What about a guy who made a popular Java game in his spare time and sold it to Microsoft for 2 billion?
What in that process required forgoing empathy and ethics?
That's just one example. There are plenty of rich people who got there fairly and created a lot of value along the way.
I take it you're referring to the same guy who, after taking his money, wrote that feminism is a "social disease" and that privilege is a "made up metric"? That guy?
The "pretty much" disclaimer in their comment covers this case. But it doesn't dispute their idea that most billionaires reached that level of wealth by exploiting others
It depends how you define "exploit". How is Jensen Huang "exploiting" others?
He started a GPU company, hires a lot of people, pays some of them very well, pays others not that well. I don't think you can say he is "exploiting" them though.
He made lives of hundreds of thousands of people much better. If anything I think he should be celebrated and I am very happy he is a billionaire.
How is Roger Federer exploiting others? He played a competitive game, won a lot of tournaments, accepted a lot of sponsorship money. He is now a billionaire. Did he need to give up ethics and morals to get there? What kind of blame is that really?
That's just one example. There are plenty of rich people who got there fairly and created a lot of value along the way.